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Moving to the cloud is one of the most logical and sensible migrations for any organization, given the innumerable benefits it offers. From increased efficiency, improved cash flow, flexible bandwidth, zero hardware costs with pay as you go option, automatic software updates, mobile working style, security and leaving no carbon footprints are just a few of the cloud computing advantages.

Amazon, almost a pioneer in the pack introduced its first AWS service and has continuously innovated to offer a comprehensive suite of services and solutions for the cloud.

Storage Services: Cloud storage is integral to cloud computing, holding key information used by applications. Elastic Block Storage (EBS) ensures applications are matched with the right storage capacity, performance and cost. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, low-cost, web-based cloud storage service. AWS storage services are a great choice and allow organizations to focus on business problems rather than on hardware and storage.

Database Services: AWS offers full suite of database services to fit application requirements. Amazon Relational Database web service provides an easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Dynamo DB is NOSQL DB which allows storing and retrieving large amounts of data. While the ElastiCache is also a simple option to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud that improves performance of web applications.

AWS offers a plethora of compute products that enables organizations to deploy, run and scale their applications as virtual servers, containers or code. EC2 web service provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Applications can be uploaded and Elastic Beanstalk takes care of capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring. Lambda is a service that is used to run codes for applications without any need to manage a server.

Mobile Services: There is a spectrum of services that AWS offers to develop mobile apps that can scale to cater to large number of users.

Increasingly, both small and big organizations are embracing AWS owing to compelling features such as, pricing, performance, speed, security and flexibility. At SBL, we have integrated different AWS services for British Army Ancestors project and have sufficient expertise in performing such migrations.